Confused about tcp_wrappers and sshd

[Paul Howarth]

On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 10:54 -0700, barophobia wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm trying to install DenyHosts (http://denyhosts.sourceforge.net/)
> and it says I need to have sshd compiled with tcp_wrappers. I did the
> test that the site gives
> (http://denyhosts.sourceforge.net/ssh_config.html) to determine if
> sshd has been compiled with tcp_wrappers but the test failed so I
> guess it hasn't.
> 
> I'm using FC3 with updated RPM's (from the FC3 updated repository).
> 
> Here is some (possibly) important output:
> 
> [root at hachiroku /etc]# rpm -qa|grep -i wrap
> tcp_wrappers-7.6-37.2
> [root at hachiroku /etc]# rpm -qa|grep -i ssh
> openssh-clients-3.9p1-8.0.2
> openssh-3.9p1-8.0.2
> openssh-server-3.9p1-8.0.2
> [root at hachiroku /etc]#
> 
> So obviously I have openssh installed as well as tcp_wrappers... but
> it doesn't seem that they are working in conjuction. How do I get sshd
> to be compiled with tcp_wrappers?

There's a denyhosts package in Fedora Extras; why not use that?

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>